A Voyage of three Ambassadors from England to Constantinople and the East, about the year 1056[2]. [2] Hakluyt, II, 40. Malmsb II. xiii. Upon the holy festival of Easter, King Edward the Confessor ...

Edward was the son of Ethelred II and was the penultimate Anglo-Saxon king of England who was known as 'The Confessor' because of his piety. He lived between 1003 and 1066 and was replaced by ...

This made King Sweyn of Denmark angry. He invaded England and Ethelred fled to France. ... In 1042 there was a new king of England called Edward, also known as Edward 'the Confessor.' ...

It took place in a field seven miles from Hastings. That spot grew, after being founded as the commemorative Battle Abbey in 1095, into the appropriately name town of Battle.

The Cambridgeshire school where King Edward the Confessor and a Queer Eye stylist studied. Former pupils at this public school also include the first Mayor of New York and a member of indie band ...

7. 1066 - Year of the three kings. When Edward the Confessor died in January 1066 there were three claimants to the throne of England: Harold, Earl of Wessex; Hardrada, King of Norway and William ...

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In 1066, the English King Edward the Confessor died without an heir. As if dying without a direct descendant to claim the throne wasn't one of the most chaotic things a king could do, Edward took ...